Tasks & Context Switching

IntelliJ IDEA provides facilities to set up your workflow according to the issue
tracking procedure accepted in your team. You can bind your account in an issue tracker to your project, and
work on it in the discourse of tasks and contexts.

Issue Tracking System Integration

To configure synchronization between an issue tracking system and IntelliJ IDEA choose type of server and
enter credentials. IntelliJ IDEA will automatically synchronize the tasks.

You can also specify commit message template. IntelliJ IDEA will put corresponding task information into
the placeholders for each commit.

Tasks & Context Switching

Once issue tracking system is configured, you can create or open existing task. IntelliJ IDEA will
automatically switch the context.

Context includes active changelist, open editors, project view state, run configurations and break
points. Switching between contexts lets you always focus on activities associated with the task you
a working on at the moment.

Contexts may be also managed independently from tasks. You can clear, save and switch contexts
manually.